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starring: Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas directed by: Steve Barron

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Average Rating: Rating: - The TMNT As They Were Meant To Be. . . Almost The success of the immensly popular kids show "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" lead, of course, to a live-action movie. Obviuosly most of theater flockers would be the millions of saturday morning kiddies who love the cartoon, but the producers didn't want to forget those whose support of the original grittier version of TMNT (in the b&w comix) that spawned the toys and the cartoon in the 1st place. So they decided to mesh the two. (Aside from new characters created exclusively for the film) only characters from the original comics were used, the TMNT, Shredder, April, Casey, Splinter. No Krang, Technodrome, Dimension X, Rocksteady & Bebop or footbots. (However April is still a reporter though.) But it was done in the style of the cartoon; lots of joking around, lots of pizza munching and even multi-colored bands and pupils were given to the turtles. But none of it is done to the point where a fan of the comix couldn't stand it, actually most of it is quite funny. The plot was even based upon the original comix folowing TMNT vol. 1 #1, Raphael #1 (loosely), Leonardo #1 (very loosely), TMNT #10, 11 and 19-21 (Return to New York). Of course some editing is done to asapt all these comix into a 100m film and I must say it's done quite well, still us true TMNT fans await a cartoon or film adaption based ONLY upon the original comix, but hey this is good too. Also, Jim Henson's Turtle costumes where wonderful. Rating: - Better than it is given credit for being Ahh, the memories, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hitting the big screen back in 1990. I was so excited to go see it. I thought it was a great movie at the time, and still enjoy watching from time to time. TMNT stars Judith Hoag as April O'Neal, Elias Koteas as Casey Jones, and Corey Feldmen as the voice of Donatello. The story takes place in New York, where a popular television reporter, April O'Neal, reports of recent rise in crime which she believes there is more to it then what the police department is saying. Of course, the people doing the crime want her to shut up. They are The Shredder and his group of ninjas called The Foot. During an attack by The Foot, April O'Neal is rescued by one of the turtles and taken to the turtles home. Soon Splinter, the turtles master, is kidnapped and they meet another ally, Casey Jones, who helps to rescue Splinter. Most critics will write Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles off as a terrible movie. They always do when it's a movie directed towards the young (with Disney Animated features being the exception). It may be no Citzen Cane, then again, it isn't trying to be. More people like it then is willing to admit it, I guarantee that. GRADE: B+ Rating: - A Fine Adaption of a classic comic book creation! Just a quick update to sort something out - Amazon.com`s review says the Turtles origin was a Nintendo game - WRONG! The turtles were the stars of a cult black and white comic book created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, it mixed eastern philosophy, Martial Arts, Ninjitsu and a wicked sense of humour with a crazily surreal plot involving toxic waste mutated talking Turtles trained as instruments of vengeance against evil traitor Shredder by their master Splinter(giant rat mutated by the same toxic waste) and some very violent action scenes and dark subject matter to boot(It was later made a more kiddie friendly story with all the violence toned down). Anyone who likes the movies and the cartoon I urge you to track down the graphic novels of the original Turtles to see how the heroes in a half shell began life. The movie? it`s surprisingly good for such a difficult plot, the whole plot of TMNT is so surreal it would be easy to not get the mix of comedy and drama right but the creators did a fine job, funny one minute, exciting the next and at times quite touching (There are at least three scenes that bring tears to my eyes even now years after my childhood!)the fight scenes are well handled to say the guys performing are in giant suits that must severely limit their movement but it doesn`t show. Jim Henson`s creature workshop did a cool job on the Anamatronics that make the Turtle heads talk so convincingly and evil foe shredder is well portrayed and is closer to the more vicious killer in the original comic books. If you`ve forgotten the charms of the green heroes now`s the perfect time to get re-aquainted as Action god John Woo(Hard Boiled, Face/Off etc) is planning a computer generated action fest with Leonardo,Donatello, Michaelangelo and Raphael as we speak!. I have given an overall rating for the DVD rather than the movie as although the movie is strong the special features are a little weak(There`s only one feature that can be really classed as "Special". Movie good,DVD mediocre.

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